Novel · Historical fiction · 1850
The Scarlet Letter
주홍 글자
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Set in seventeenth-century Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne is condemned to wear a scarlet letter A for adultery. The novel follows her, her daughter Pearl, and the hidden father of the child.
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“A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.”
The Scarlet Letter · Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.
수염이 난 남자들이 슬픈 색깔의 옷을 입고 회색 뾰족한 모자를 쓴 무리가 여자들과 섞여 있었는데, 어떤 여자들은 두건을 쓰고 어떤 여자들은 맨머리였고, 문은 떡갈나무로 튼튼하게 지어졌으며 쇠못이 박힌 나무 건물 앞에 모여 있었습니다.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
새로운 식민지의 설립자들은 인간의 미덕과 행복의 유토피아를 아무리 처음 구상했더라도, 가장 먼저 실질적인 필요성 중 하나로 미개발 토지의 일부를 묘지로, 또 다른 일부를 감옥 부지로 할당해야 한다는 것을 인식했습니다.
In accordance with this rule it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson’s lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King’s Chapel.
이 규칙에 따라 보스턴의 선조들은 아이작 존슨의 땅과 그의 무덤 주변에 최초의 매장지를 표시한 시기와 거의 동시에 콘힐 근처 어딘가에 최초의 감옥을 지었다고 안전하게 추정할 수 있습니다. 이 매장지는 나중에 킹스 채플의 옛 교회 묘지에 모인 모든 무덤의 핵이 되었습니다.
Certain it is that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front.
확실히 마을이 세워진 지 15년이나 20년쯤 되었을 때, 나무 감옥은 이미 풍화 얼룩과 세월의 흔적으로 뒤덮여 있었고, 이로 인해 칙칙하고 음침한 앞모습이 더욱 어두워졌습니다.
The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World.
그 떡갈나무 문에 있는 육중한 철제 장식에 생긴 녹은 신세계의 그 어떤 것보다도 더 고풍스러워 보였다.
Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era.
범죄와 관련된 모든 것과 마찬가지로, 그것은 젊은 시절을 전혀 알지 못했던 것 같습니다.
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.
이 흉측한 건물 앞과 건물과 거리의 수레바퀴 자국 사이에는 우엉, 명아주, 사과고사리 등과 같은 보기 흉한 잡초가 무성하게 자란 풀밭이 있었는데, 이는 문명 사회의 검은 꽃, 즉 감옥을 일찍부터 피워낸 토양에서 이러한 잡초들이 잘 자라는 것을 발견한 듯했다.
But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.
그러나 문 한쪽에는, 거의 문턱에 뿌리를 내린 야생 장미 덤불이 있었는데, 6월인 이 달에는 섬세한 보석 같은 꽃들이 만발하여, 마치 죄수가 들어올 때와 사형 선고를 받고 나올 때 자연의 깊은 마음이 그를 불쌍히 여기고 친절하게 대할 수 있음을 보여주는 듯 향기롭고 연약한 아름다움을 선사하는 것 같았습니다.
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Book details
- Title
- The Scarlet Letter (주홍 글자)
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- First published
- 1850
- Genre
- Novel, Historical fiction, Classic
- Original language
- English
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- 20 languages
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